Demo Review: Lost Without Cause

[Region: Herts]
[Label: Unsigned]

Lost Without Cause, Watford’s trio of punk-pop rockers, have presumably had a real bash at replicating that feisty My Chemical Romance sound but have also managed to suck up a lot of what Green Day and, in particular, Placebo were producing early in their careers. Unfortunately a disjointed recording process at three […]

DVD Review: Unearth

[DVD: Alive From The Apocalypse]
[Label: Metal Blade]

Are Unearth today’s most underrated metal band? When you look at how Lamb Of God and As I Lay Dying are lauded you do wonder. I remember standing open-mouthed when I saw them play Download Festival last year. It felt like they simply must have blown a hole in […]

Pendulum: Tour Continues Despite Broken Bones!

Pendulum return from their home coming tour of Australia/New Zealand with broken bones!
It must have been some tour… Lead singer Rob Swire and hype man Ben Mount were forced to play much of their home coming tour down under with a broken foot and a broken ankle, Rob Swire broke his foot at the Melbourne […]

Album Review: The Martin Harley Band

[Album: Grow Your Own]
[Label: Villainous Records]

The Martin Harley Band formed in 2002 and immediately established themselves as a hard-working live act. They’ve played with the likes of Bo Diddley, Newton Faulkner, James Blunt and The Magic Numbers and featured on compilations alongside Eric Clapton, Paul Weller, P.J. Harvey and The Who. There is no denying […]

Editorial: May 2008

May 2008: This is the month I can wheel out my most favourite of all phrases. I’ll come to that in a minute. In the meantime, you’ll be wanting to know what we’ve got lined up for you over the next few weeks. Well, apart from checking out our new news broadcasts, keep those eyelids […]

Album Review: Millimetre

[Album: Obsidian]
[Label: Orectic Records]

Millimetre is one man‘s vision, and that man is Terence J. McGaughey. Since the band’s inception in 1998, McGaughey has received a steady flow of critical acclaim for his densely-patterned sweeping walls of lo-fidelity. Yet it took a move from Belfast to London before McGaughey released his debut album in 2005, ’Love […]

Album Review: The Hottness

Album: Stay Classy
Label: Ferret Music

With a name like The Hottness and a picture of an overfilled shot glass on the cover, you could be forgiven for immediately cracking out your striped spandex and mullet wigs for their debut ‘Stay Classy’, and you probably wouldn’t be far disappointed. Wielding a sack of rock n’ roll clichés […]

Metal Blade Sign French Band One-Way Mirror

Metal Blade Records has signed the French band One-Way Mirror.
The band was created in 2006 when five close friends decided to join forces to create the “ultimate rock metal band”: Guillaume Bideau (Mnemic), David and Franck Potvin (Lyzanxia, Phaze I), Dirk Verbeuren (Soilwork) and Loic Colin (Scarve, Watcha).
Recording sessions for the album were split […]

NASS Festival 2008: Line-up and Details Announced

Relentless NASS returns for its tenth consecutive year on June 13th-15th 2008 for three days of action sports and live music at the Royal Bath and West Showground. The highly charged festival has seen crowds in excess of 15,000 attending to take in not only a premier music and sports line-up, but also an extensive […]

Gig Review: Sick Of It All + Wisdom In Chains + The Scourge Of River City

Venue: Queen Charlotte, Norwich
Date: 21 April 2008

The cream of New York hardcore in an ickle British pub… seriously. As we rounded the corner, the picturesque public house, The Queen Charlotte, honed into view and there filling the pavement outside it, was one decent-sized mini-bus and, dwarfing that, a monster American double-decked tour bus with blacked-out […]